HIS 228 - The Black Death and Beyond: How Epidemics Changed History

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Investigation of the impact of epidemic diseases on Americans and western culture, from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and the recent experience of SARS and COVID-19. Focus on social, cultural and historical impacts of major infectious diseases; development of public health measures; social reactions in art and literature; the rise of the germ theory of disease; the issue of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Graded ABCDE